Serious zone: The following section contains no jokes. Don't expect any laughs.

Stanford University's Folding@home project uses distributed computing to analyze the folding of proteins and research their role in many well known diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many cancers and cancer-related syndromes.

It's easy, and you can be an hero to all humankind without lifting a finger. All you need to do is run the software in the background. Whatever CPU power you don't need goes to good use, and the software gives the CPU up easily when you need it. Compete against each other and against other teams, all for a great cause.

Check the Team Page regularly to see how much ass you've kicked measure your rank relative to peers, and to see the rank and work production of the team overall. Personal stats can be viewed by clicking on individual names in the list.

Just for laughs comparison, check out these n00bs. Wikipedia has already eaten our dust, and Wikimediais in our sights has also had a 3-course meal that consisted mainly of Uncyclopedia's dust (now fat free!). Penny-arcade wanted some of that dust action too, and they received it big time. So it's time to set our sights to something bigger. And longer. And South American-er. No, we're not talking about your gardener, Raul. We mean you Team Overclockers Chile (pronounced chi-lay)! And if our calculations are correct (and they are) we will be over taking you all in roughly 27 years. Consider yourselves warned!

To reward your hard work and loyalty, our enemies friends at Stanford University have given us a couple of certificates (they're so nasty they don't even print them out for us :-( C'mon, it's only two!)